After posting last night about the trade-off between confidentiality and client communication, I came across Joe Hodnicki’s post at the Law Librarian’s Blog about the rise of services like Yourhackerz.com which enables users to buy a password to another anyone’s online email accounts like AOL, Yahoo, gmail or social networking sites like Facebook for
MyShingle Virtual Videos with Sam Glover, Minnesota Consumer Lawyer
MyShingle Virtual Videos from Carolyn Elefant on Vimeo.
I’m proud to present the launch of the MyShingle Virtual Video series, which will have a permanent home and dedicated page when my site re-lauches in the next few weeks. As video gains traction, I realized that many solo and small firm lawyers would like to
Twitter: Legal Yes, But Always Appropriate?
Two weeks ago, while paging through a hard copy of the New York Times, I stumbled across this interesting controversy reported in the about casting director Daryl Eisenberg‘s use of Twitter to comment on performers as they were auditioning for her. Though Eisenberg didn’t identify any performers by name, her tweets included comments
Ride Shotgun With MyShingle and RECAP
Since I was out at the end of last week, I missed the announcement of RECAP, a nifty little Firefox plug-in that rides shotgun with lawyers as they use PACER, automatically uploading a copy of documents selected for download to a free repository where other lawyers and the public can view them for free.
Some Tech Round Up: LawTech Talk, MILO Conference
Here’s a quick round-up of a couple of tech related items of use for solos.
For a limited time, Nicole Black of Law Tech Talk is making her screencast on using online tools for case preparation available at no charge. Go to this link for more information.
The first MILO Fest (Macs In Law Office)
Legal Research for Solos: A Round-Up
Back in the dark ages when I started my firm, the only legal research options available were the library and a $600/month LEXIS subscription service, which actually had a cap on number of searches. Fast forward fifteen years and Lexis costs have declined considerably, though not as much as one might expect in light of
Nolo Releases Plain English Dictionary iPhone App
One of my site sponsors, Nolo has just released a cool new iPhone app – a Plain English Legal dictionary, as described in this Press Release. From the Press Release,a description of the dictionary:
Edited by a team of lawyers with expertise in all the vital areas of the law, Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary
Clients Search Globally, Act Locally
Over at my roost at Nolo Legal Marketing Blawg, I posted about the Google Local Business Center where in exchange for listing a business, users receive access to a suite of tools that enables them to track traffic to their site and even identify the locations where clients are coming from. I registered my
Does A Client Really Care if Your Firm Has Great SEO? Higbee dba RecordGone.com Does.
It must have been a slow news day for self-described upstart small law firm, Higbee Associates dba RecordGone. What else could inspire the firm to issue this bizarre press release Press Release, trumpeting the firm’s Alexa search engine ranking of 127,628 and boasting that the ranking outscores any of the top ten largest
The World According to Wordle
As I’ve written plenty of times before, I’m not much of a fan of technology for technology’s sake. I’m both too busy and too clumsy to fool around with gizmos and gadgets that don’t have an immediate, practical application to my law practice or my life. So when I first learned about a site called